The Standard

The HL7® Da Vinci Project is extending the deadline to nominate outstanding contributors for its 2025 Community Champions recognition program. Community members now have until Friday, February 6, 2026, to submit nominations, giving an extra week to spotlight colleagues and collaborators who are making a real impact on healthcare interoperability.

The Community Champions program honors individuals from across the Da Vinci Project's diverse, multi-stakeholder ecosystem, including health plans, provider organizations, accountable care organizations (ACOs), and health IT vendors. As an HL7® FHIR® Accelerator, the Da Vinci Project brings together public and private sector leaders to advance standards that support automated workflows, real-time data exchange, reduced administrative burden and improved care coordination.

Since launching in 2020, the Community Champions program has recognized individuals who embody a spirit of “industry above self.” Champions are known for their collaboration, leadership, and commitment to advancing real-world adoption of HL7 FHIR standards in support of value-based care and a more connected healthcare system.

Join Us for the January Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable on January 28, 2026, from 4 - 5:30 pm ET

As we enter 2026, the healthcare industry continues to move from planning to active implementation of standardized data exchange. Because the first phase of the CMS-0057-F Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule took effect this month, the stakes for technical and operational alignment have never been higher. The HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable, taking place on January 28, 2026, from 4 – 5:30 pm. ET,  will provide insights and resources to navigate this pivotal year.

What You'll Learn

Our previous sessions focused on how using Da Vinci burden reduction and payer data exchange IGs are transforming healthcare and how best to meet prior authorization regulatory requirements. This January session builds on that foundation by outlining key use cases, IGs, and the progress made in standardized data exchange.

Gain valuable knowledge on operational enhancements and resources to optimize your planning for smoother HL7 FHIR implementations, including implementation guides referenced in federal regulations. Additionally, hear about Da Vinci's 2026 priorities and the HL7 Da Vinci Community Champions program. 

October Da Vinci Community Roundtable on October 22 from  4:00 – 5:30 p.m. ET

As healthcare organizations continue to operationalize CMS-0057 requirements, understanding how to align technology, workflows, and policy is more critical than ever. The HL7® Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable, taking place on October 22, 2025, from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. ET, will bring together industry leaders to share practical, actionable insights on how Da Vinci Implementation Guides (IGs) are transforming interoperability and reducing administrative burden across the healthcare ecosystem.

This month’s session, “Actionable Insights on Improving Burden Reduction, Payer Data Exchange, and Patient Cost Transparency,” will highlight the real-world value of HL7 FHIR®-based standards in improving efficiency, streamlining workflows, and driving measurable progress in value-based care.

What You'll Learn

The last HL7 Da Vinci Community Roundtable explored how regulatory, technical, and business drivers are shaping the future of prior authorization reform, with a focus on implementation strategies and interoperability alignment. That session underscored a key message: collaboration across payers, providers, and vendors is essential for scaling FHIR adoption.

The upcoming October Roundtable builds on that foundation connecting the dots between Burden Reduction, Payer Data Exchange (PDex), and Patient Cost Transparency (PCT) by highlighting Da Vinci’s pilots to show how these efforts can deliver tangible impact. First-hand accounts from Providence and Multicare as well as an update on recent testing work will be featured.    

August Community Roundtable Provides Multi-Faceted View of Prior Authorization Regulatory Requirements and Da Vinci Implementation Resources   

For the August HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable, industry leaders will offer an insightful, holistic discussion targeting those who want to better understand how best to meet prior authorization regulatory requirements aiming to increase efficiency and improve patient outcomes.   

With a focus on the latest developments surrounding the Da Vinci Prior Authorization Implementation Guides (IGs), the session begins with an examination of clinical and business drivers and a level-setting overview of federal and state level-activities impacting prior authorization requirements. Then we highlight technical standards, focusing on the underlying requirements of CMS-0057,  HTI-4 and the current status of the IGs.  The session concludes with how Da Vinci responds to industry needs, fostering a supportive environment for implementation and providing education, resources, and learnings from real-world implementers and piloting opportunities for those on their implementation journey. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in collaboration with over 45 of the nation’s largest health insurers, has announced an important step forward in transforming the problematic processes of prior authorization. By pledging to reduce delays, increase transparency, and standardize processes by 2027, these organizations have signaled a long-overdue shift toward easing administrative burdens and improving access to evidence-based care.

The pledge spans insurance markets (commercial coverage, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care) and will benefit an impressive 257 million Americans. But turning that vision into reality will require more than declarations. It will demand the kind of trusted technical infrastructure that HL7’s community has built together for over 35 years.

 As implementation begins, prior authorization reform demands scalable, open and consensus-driven standards.

Community Roundtable Featuring Clinical Advisory Council Insights on FHIR Adoption on June 25 at 4 pm

Community Roundtable Featuring Payer Data Exchange Implementation Guide on May 28 at 4 pm

If you're looking for a real-world take on how the healthcare industry is putting the HL7 Da Vinci Project’s Payer Data Exchange (PDex) Implementation Guide into action, you won’t want to miss this event! The 90-minute virtual community roundtable will feature how organizations are using FHIR-based APIs to improve transparency and value-based care.

How Organizations Are Using PDex in Production Today

After a brief update on the PDex Implementation Guide from Da Vinci’s technical director, attendees will hear about implementation considerations and first-hand implementer accounts from those actively applying PDex to solve real-world data exchange challenges:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield Association + InterSystems will discuss the immense potential of payer-to-payer APIs to increase patient transparency and improve value-based care in light of the high levels of churn of the impacted population, resulting in care gaps and a need to provide patients with longitudinal records of care. Presenters will highlight the relevant Implementation Guides and the workflow issues inherent in the process that are being worked on. 
  
  
• Availity, Healow Insights, and Humana will explore their experience with payer-to-payer data sharing using PDex—including workflow impacts, scaling considerations, and member-centered outcomes. Availity and Humana will share its observations and lessons learned along their payer-to-payer implementation journey through internal development, coordinating with their cohort of payers, and participating in Connectathons. Then Healow will highlight its experiences from two years in PDex production. 

Are you a member of a technical team that’s beginning its journey toward implementing HL7's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR^®) application program interfaces (APIs)? Then don’t miss an upcoming three-day online educational event offering two technical tracks tailored to your needs. 

Two days of interactive content delivery and demonstrations will be followed by a Connectathon that will provide implementers and developers with the opportunity to test FHIR-based solutions and exchange data with other FHIR interfaces.  

Organizations that want to fast-track implementing HL7 FHIR APIs to automate workflow, maximize efficiency and meet federal requirements of the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) should encourage their technical teams attend this online event. 

“We designed two tracks for technical team members at provider and payer organizations, as well as technology vendors, who are looking for a crash course on making the most of FHIR,” says Viet Nguyen, M.D., Technical Director of the HL7 Da Vinci Project. (Da Vinci has developed implementation guides for putting FHIR to use in supporting value-based medicine.) 

Early Bird Registration Ends Soon

Time is running out to take advantage of early bird registration discounts for an upcoming three-day online educational event that will offer practical insights on how to implement Health Level Seven's (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application program interfaces (APIs).

Early bird discounts end March 31 for the event, “Strategy to Execution: Better Prior Authorization by Integrating Operations, FHIR and CMS-0057.”

Two days of interactive content delivery and demonstrations will be followed by a collaborative Connectathon testing event on day three that will provide implementers and developers with the opportunity to test FHIR-based solutions and exchange data with other FHIR interfaces.

If you’re looking to fast-track your organization’s efforts to use HL7 FHIR APIs to automate workflow, maximize efficiency and meet federal requirements of the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F), then don’t miss this virtual, hands-on training and testing event.

March 26 Session Features Demonstration and Lessons Learned from Cognizant and Infor

What’s the most effective way to streamline the exchange of data among providers and payers for a wide variety of purposes? Find out at the next HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable: “Transforming Healthcare End-to-End Data Conversations.”

This free webinar, to be held at 4 p.m. ET on March 26, will show how two Da Vinci member organizations are working together to transform provider/payer data conversations by applying Health Level Seven's (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interface (API) standard.

In addition to a demonstration, presenters will address the lessons learned so far in using the FHIR Implementation Guides for Coverage Requirements Discovery (CRD), Documentation Templates and Rules (DTR), Prior Authorization Support (PAS), Clinical Data Exchange (CDex), and Data Exchange for Quality Measures (DEQM), including Gaps in Care.